Broadcast journalist Barbara Walters was a popular morning news anchor
for over 10 years on NBC’s Today, where she worked with Hugh Downs
and Frank McGee. She moved to the ABC television network in 1976
and became the first female co-anchor of the ABC Evening News,
working with Harry Reasoner until 1978.
(April 22, 1976)
Charles Grodin is a actor, comedian, author and former cable talk show host. During
his early film career he played an obstetrician in the 1968 horror film, Rosemary’s
Baby. He gained recognition as a comedy actor when he played the lead role in the
1972 film The Heartbreak Kid. Gordin’s career took a turn in 1992, when he played family man George Newton in the children’s comedy Beethoven, opposite Bonnie
Hunt. The film was a box-office hit, and he reprised the role in the 1993 sequel.
Charles Gordin with Jeannie Berlin from The Heartbreak Kid
Gordin in Rosemary’s Baby
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known
by his pen name Mark Twain, was a author and humorist. He is most noted for
his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel, Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn (1885).
